ICN Mountain West

Feds Will Soon Impose New Framework on Colorado River if States Can’t Agree How to Manage It

Amid the river’s worst water year on record and deadlocked negotiations over its future, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it will impose a new 10-year management plan if the states relying on the river don’t come to an agreement.

By Wyatt Myskow

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of Youth Climate Case Against Trump

By Dana Drugmand

Colorado River Faces ‘Devastating Consequences’ If Another Dry Winter Lands, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

Logging Project Near Yellowstone Could Threaten Wildlife Habitat and Tourist-Dependent Businesses

By Mosabber Hossain

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

By Peter Aldhous

Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands

By Evan Simon and Ames Alexander, Floodlight

Prescribed Burns and Forest Thinning Averted Millions of Tons of Emissions and Billions in Damages

By Steven Rodas

What the US Would Lose If It Eliminates the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Trump Administration Bans a Nonprofit’s Bison From Grazing on Federal Lands, but Spares Tribes

By Blaine Harden

New Paper Shows Surges of Concentrated Precipitation Can Lead to Dryer Landscapes

By Jake Bolster

As a Colorado Aquifer Runs Low, Dangerous Heavy Metals Threaten Rural Communities’ Drinking Water

By Emily Payne

Colorado Warns of Severe Fire Risk in Southwestern States. It May be Difficult to Share Resources.

By Colorado College Journalism Institute

Wyoming’s Largest Utility Joins a New Western Day Ahead Market for Electricity

By Jake Bolster

Facing Drought and Low Snowpack, Rio Grande States Expect a ‘Challenging’ Year

By Martha Pskowski

Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Back?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

By Jake Bolster

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

By Jake Bolster